Salt Lake Times | 1890-07-28 | Page 6 | In Guadalajara

In Guadalajara. It rather staggers the North American traveler in Peru to see the prettily uniformed uni-formed young women collecting fares on the street railways, but when he visits the second city in Mexico, Guadalajara, and witnesses the refined courtesies practiced prac-ticed by the male conductors on the street cars there ho is completely paralyzed. para-lyzed. The manners of the Quadalajaran are in keeping with the cheerfulness and friendliness of this city. Imagine yourself your-self entering a reet car in New York, or any city in the United States, and before be-fore taking your seat bowing, hat in hand, to your follow passengers, none of whom you have ever seen before. Then suppose yourself arrived at your destination; yon rise, smile' a friendly farewell to the car in general, shake hands with the conductor, and with a polite inclination of the head take leave of the driver. The number of times I have witnessed such exhibitions of politeness polite-ness convince me that it is one of the customs of the country. How much more winning is the urbanity of these delightful Guadalajarans than the superficial su-perficial intellectuality of the Boston conductor, who corrects your pronunciation pronuncia-tion and completes a quotation of Drowning when a passenger's memory is at fault New York Tribune.